Can I use PHP sitemap

I am using a php script to create it my sitemap, can I use this .php file as my site map in google?

 

the sitemap i believe must be xml.

 

what script are you using?

 

I am using php to create linsk to all pages of my site, is there a script to covert the url I created into xml format?

 

If it is your own script, then why not have it generate an XML file instead? I believe there is a PHP XML sitemap generator script out there. Try Google.

 

doesnt google provide a ssitemap tool which creates one for you?

 

Yes, but only if your server supports Python

 

Yes it's my script, but the problem I don't know how convert the output into xml format.

 

There is an online service creating sitemaps (up to 5 websites for free) and pinging google after crawling for immediate submission:

http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com

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I think this is the best:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

 

Google won't read the sitemap in a .php form only .xml form. Check out HotScripts.com - there are a ton of Google sitemap generators out there!

 

Yeah offcourse u can use a PHP page as a google sitemap. Only make sure that the page that u create, is has a XML header.
Example:

header('Content-Type: application/xml');
echo '<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">';

... your url's ...

echo '</urlset>';

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Pretty easy. I do it too.

 

Wow this is cool I will try it and will update you if it works

 

PHP sitemap, yeah, i use it

 

But firstly I have some problem

 

Making an XML sitemap file -

$copy_text = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n
                             <!--Google Site Map -->\n
                             <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">\n
                              ... your urls ...
                             </urlset>';
$FileName = "sitemap.xml";
$fh = fopen($FileName, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $copy_text);
fclose($fh);

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Well not strictly true, you can have an asp or php file that dynamically generates your xml sitemap, I have developed numerous dynamically driven sitemap files for blog and ecommerce sites. You just have to make sure that the information is outputted in xml, so for an asp sitemap it may look like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<%
Response.Buffer = true
Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
%>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="web-blog/include/sitemapcss.xsl"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
	http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
  <loc>link</loc>
  <lastmod><%= year(Date()) & "-" & strCurMonth & "-" & strCurDay %></lastmod>
  <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
  <priority>1</priority>
</url>
<%
Do While Not rsBlog.EOF
%>
<url>
  <loc><% Response.Write("link")%></loc>
  <lastmod><%= year(rsBlog("blog_releaseDate")) & "-" & strBlogMonth & "-" & strBlogDay %></lastmod>
  <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
  <priority>.5</priority>
</url>
<%
rsBlog.MoveNext
Loop
%>
</urlset>

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Sorry I know that probably wont help you all that much if your after php, but I aint a php programmer.